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Mercy Cristina Avellan — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: grants@physics.utexas.edu

Lauren Constant — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: lauren.constant@austin.utexas.edu

• Development, preparation, budget creation and justifications, compliance verification, and submission of research proposals to federal, state, local, foundation, or industry sponsor agencies and organizations
• Office of Sponsored Projects liaison
• Effort certification assistance, no-cost extensions, credit requests
• Preparation of progress, performance, or ad hoc reports as requested by sponsor or PIs
• Assist in use of the following systems: Research Management System (RMS), eRA Commons, FastLane, ORCID, NIH Commons, Cayuse, SciENcv, etc.

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Note: This department routes all proposals through Dell Medical School

Sydney Bair — Program Manager, Office of Research, Dell Medical School
Email: sydney.bair@austin.utexas.edu

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Cindy Seiler — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: cindy@utexas.edu
Pre-award grant support, and post-award consultation.

Angi Machos — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: a.machos@austin.utexas.edu
Post-award Support

Niki Garcia-Holmes — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: niki.holmes@austin.utexas.edu

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Kyle D. Frasch — Assistant Director for Research
Email: kfrasch@austin.utexas.edu

Yvette Trujillo Canedo — Grants and Contracts Manager
Email: ybtrujillo@austin.utexas.edu

Jeremiah Paulus — Project Manager
Email: jdpaulus@utexas.edu

Kristen Bell — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: kristen.bell@austin.utexas.edu

Clara Walsh — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: clara.walsh@austin.utexas.edu

Comprehensive research administrative support for the entire grant lifecycle is provided to Principal Investigators (PI).

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Angelica Morgan — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: amorgan@austin.utexas.edu

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Sarah Durand — Assistant Director of Business Operations
Email: sarah.durand@utexas.edu

Joel Vinciguerra — Financial Analyst
Email: jvinciguerra@austin.utexas.edu

Research project coordination, pre- and post-award support, including: budget review, review of general grant requirements, OSP grant submission.

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Sean Ryan Schaffer — Administrative Manager, Contracts and Grants
Email: schaffer@austin.utexas.edu
Pre-award support for grant submission, mostly NSF, NIH (non-clinical trial), Texas Government sponsors, other small sponsors. Interface with OSP and sponsors on award negotiations, reporting, extensions. Advisory support for post-award administration (account administration, voucher payments, purchasing); Contracts and grants support.

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Note: This department routes most proposals through Population Research Center.

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Janet Bui — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: janet.bui@austin.utexas.edu
Pre-and Post-award support

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Megan Booth — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist-Team Lead
Email: meganb@cs.utexas.edu
Pre- and Post-Award Support for: J. Biswas, S. Chaudhuri, I. Dillig, J. Hart, V. Isler, B. Knox, S. Niekum, P. Stone, Robotics IAP

Catherine Vu — Senior Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: canderss@cs.utexas.edu
Pre- and Post-Award Support for: V. Chidambaram, D. Kim, R. Miikkulainen, S. Narayan, S. Peter, D. Tang, E. Witchel, Systems IAP

Tiffany Guridy — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: tiffany.guridy@austin.utexas.edu
Pre- and Post-Award Support for: E. Choi, G. Durrett, K. Grauman, D. Harwath, P. Krähenbühl, R. Mooney, G. Pavlakos, C. Rossbach

Tyra Person — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: tls2022@cs.utexas.edu
Pre-and Post-Award Support for: A. Akella, J.Bornholt, Q.Huang, Q.Liu, R.Martin-Martin, K.McMillan, A.Pavel, Y.Zhu

Destiny Turner — Grants and Contracts Specialist
Email: dturner@cs.utexas.edu
Pre- and Post-Award Support for: V. Arun, W. Hunt, A. Klivans, C. Lin, L. Qiu, H. Shacham, P. Toprac, E. Vouga